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  • Encounters on the Passage

    Inuit Meet the Explorers

    by Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Inuit elders who grew up in camps on the shores of Frobisher Bay can tell you what happened when Martin Frobisher arrived with his vessel in 1576: "He fired two warning shots into the air. So right away there were some grievances." Frobisher's shots were the opening salvos in the search for the Northwest Passage, a search that lasted for more than four hundred years and riveted the Western world, ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

  • Images of Justice

    by Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Series Book 16 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
    Images of Justice resonates with voices of the North and comes alive through interviews with many of those involved in the cases - defendants, judges, and prosecutors. Eber also provides valuable information on the little-known carvers who created these remarkable works of art. At a time when alternative legal systems for Native peoples are being debated, Images of Justice provides a lively, ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD

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    When the Whalers Were Up North

    Inuit Memories from the Eastern Arctic

    by Dorothy Harley Eber ...
    Narrated by Brianne Tucker ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    The author tells a story drawn from oral memories, a story which will soon disappear with the last Inuit generation to have seen the whalers. Illuminated by a remarkable collection of drawings, photographs, and illustrations, many in full colour, tales are told of when the whalers first appeared on the north-east coast of Baffin Island, how they set up land stations in the whale-rich waters of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • Why We Act Like Canadians

    A Personal Exploration of Our National Character

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  • Shingwauk's Vision

    A History of Native Residential Schools

    by J.R. Miller ...
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    Great Legal Cases and How they Shaped the World

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    Myth, Memory, and Canadian History

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  • Voyages of Hope: The Saga of the Bride-Ships

    The Saga of the Bride-Ships

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